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12/6 Court Decision Details;12/9 Philly Mtg, Films;12/10 NYC Event
The Third Circuit's December 6 rulings granted "certificates of
appealabilty" to Jamal to challenge alleged race and judicial bias in the
1995 Post Conviction Relief Action proceedings overseen by Mumia's original
1982 trial court "hanging" judge, Albert Sabo. Sabo went to extreme lengths
to keep evidence of innocence out of the court record....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 10:53pm PST
German Chancellor Merkel covers up for illegal CIA practices
The German-American partnership is based on “common democratic convictions and values,” and on the basis of these values Germany and the US are seeking “to master together the new challenges and threats of the twenty-first century.” These were the words used by German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Christian Democratic Union, CDU) as she welcomed US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday during the latter’s stopover in Berlin. The words used say a great deal about Merkel and the character ...
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 8:56pm PST
Miami airplane shooting: Washington’s ‘war on terrorism’ comes home
The most chilling aspect of the brutal state killing of Rigoberto Alpizar, the 44-year-old Costa Rican immigrant gunned down while fleeing an American Airlines Boeing 757 in Miami Wednesday, is the utter absence of any statement of remorse by government officials....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 8:49pm PST
As Rice Asserts U.S. Detainee Policy, a Look at "Torture Flights" and Secret CIA Prisons
As Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says that U.S. interrogators are forbidden to use torture both at home and abroad, we speak with British journalist Stephen Grey on how he tracks so-called "torture flights" - when the CIA kidnaps a suspect of the street and transports them to secret prisons....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 7:54am PST
Australia: thousands attend funeral for Van Nguyen
More than 3,000 people attended a funeral service yesterday for 25-year-old Nguyen Tuong Van, expressing the deeply felt public opposition to his barbaric execution by the Singapore government last Friday....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 7:45am PST
U.S. Christians March on Guantanamo to visit Prisoners on Hunger Strike
Santiago, Cuba-Twenty-five Christians in the nonviolent tradition of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker arrived in Cuba last evening and plan to set out from Santiago today on a solemn fifty-mile march to the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. They seek to defend human dignity by visiting with the hundreds of detainees who have been held for more than three years under horrific conditions by the U.S. government....
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2005 7:42pm PST
Rendition, Torture and Democracy
What are the chances that Rice and the current National Security Advisor don't know about the secret CIA flights and the torture of prisoners? Almost zero....
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2005 7:41pm PST
A Stunning Win for Mumia Abu-Jamal
In a startling new development, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia has agreed to hear arguments on three claims by Pennsylvania death-row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal that his 1982 trial and state appeal were tainted by constitutional violations....
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2005 7:40pm PST
Sami Al-Arian Acquitted
A jury has acquitted
Professor Sami Al-Arian, a Palestinian American,
on key charges....
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2005 1:22pm PST
Mumia Abu-Jamal - Decision, U.S. Court of Appeals
Bryan considers the decision of the U.S. Court
of Appeals, Third Circuit to grant new certificates of appealabilty on two
critical issues to be extremely important in regard to winning a new trial
for Mumia....
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2005 1:10pm PST
Jury Acquits Jailed Palestinian Professor of Several Charges in Major Blow to Bush Adminis
A federal jury on Tuesday failed to return a single guilty verdict on any of the 51 criminal counts against former Florida professor, Sami Al-Arian and three co-defendants accused of helping to lead a Palestinian terrorist group. He remains in jail. We speak with his daughter and a journalist who has closely followed the case....
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2005 7:31am PST
Lawsuit Charges CIA with Kidnapping and Torture of German Citizen
On Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a German citizen who says U.S. agents mistakenly kidnapped him and sent him to a secret prison in Afghanistan where he was tortured. We speak with British journalist Stehen Grey who helped expose the CIA rendition program of flying detainees to secret prisons around the world....
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2005 7:28am PST
Bush, Rice defend US abductions, torture, secret prisons
The Bush administration faced a new barrage of questions and criticism Tuesday over the US policy of kidnapping and torturing suspects in the so-called “war on terror.” One victim of the illegal US practice of “rendition” filed suit against the US government in a Washington-area federal court, while Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice faced mounting political controversy in the course of her European trip....
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2005 6:42am PST
Whittier "Trigger Happy" Cops at it Again!
Last Friday night, the usually peaceful and upscale Whittier neighborhood of Mar Vista
Heights was abruptly awaken by the sirens of approximately 23 squad cars and a volley of
about 10 shots from policemen's guns....
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2005 11:27am PST
Rice defends illegal “renditions,” threatens to reveal European collaboration in US crimes
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has responded to Europe’s appeals for information regarding Washington’s illegal practice of rendition by making clear that the practice will continue. In an attempt to turn the tables on European critics, she has implied that should Europe continue to make such demands, Washington will expose the complicity of the European governments, which allowed their airports to be used by CIA planes transporting prisoners to third countries and secret CIA-run pris...
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 10:14pm PST
The Torture-Go-Round: The CIA's Rendition Flights to Secret Prisons
Dana Priest's recent Washington Post article, "Anatomy of a CIA 'rendition' gone wrong"(1) only confirms what those who have watched the torture scandal closely already know. Abu Ghraib was no anomaly but the most visible tip of a widespread but clandestine policy. Priest reveals details about a case in which the CIA used German, Macedonian, Albanian and Afghan authorities and European air space and terminals to "render" a German citizen snatched up abroad for interrogatio...
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 10:07pm PST
Urgent -- MD's Wesley Baker set for execution tonight!
Please immediately take a moment to email, call, and fax Governor
Ehrlich and demand that he halt the execution of Wesley Baker....
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 10:46am PST
Rice on the Offensive in Europe Over Bush Administration's Use of "Torture Flights"
The scandal over the Bush administration's use of so-called "extraordinary renditions' is reaching new heights. Rendition - what many call kidnapping - is the highly controversial practice of transporting detainees seized overseas by U.S. agents to countries known for using torture. On Sunday, the Washington Post detailed how a German citizen was seized in Europe by the CIA, beaten, drugged and held to a secret prison in Afghanistan for five months before the agency realized they had the...
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 7:47am PST
A Minority Journalist Covers 'War in the Suburbs' of France
"After the fires, I really reflected, " Karim says. "There is a real problem in France, but we don't talk about it, we hide it."...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 9:38am PST
Supreme Court refuses to let ex-felons vote
With nary a peep from the mainstream media, the U.S. Supreme Court has stabbed yet another partisan knife into the American electoral system.
This time the court has let stand Florida’s infamous 137-year-old ban on voting rights for ex-felons. It was this same Jim Crow ban that the GOP used to disenfranchise thousands of Floridians in 2000, providing the margin by which George W. Bush took the presidency....
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 8:56am PST